Saint Cyprian: Letters (1–81) (Biblia.com)

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St. Cyprian’s works fall naturally into two groups: treaties (sermons, libelli, tractus) and letters (epistulae). This volume features his letters, of which 81 have come down to us, written from c. 249 until his death in 258 AD. They give a penetrating insight into the affairs of the Church in Africa in the middle of the third century. They reveal problems of doctrine and of discipline which had...

shall be cleansed from all your impurities and from all your idols. And I will cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you.’53 But how can he who is himself unclean and with whom the Holy Spirit is not cleanse and sanctify water since the Lord says in Numbers: ‘Whatever the unclean person touches will be unclean.’54 Or how can one who baptizes grant to another the remission of sins who, himself outside the Church, cannot put aside his own sins? (2) But the very

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